Swimbait questions

[Clark Stewart]

I did a search and got nada. Maybe I used the wrong terms.

For those of you that fish swimbaits - what is the method? Chuck and reel or what?

Also specifically I've seen all the pics of the *** jawjack swimbait - and now brent has it in 7.5 inches. Anybody fish these things? If so how?

[Raul]

I did a search and got nada. Maybe I used the wrong terms.

For those of you that fish swimbaits - what is the method? Chuck and reel or what?

Also specifically I've seen all the pics of the *** jawjack swimbait - and now brent has it in 7.5 inches. Anybody fish these things? If so how?

Depends on the swimbait, depends upon conditions, like any other lure there are a lot of variables on where and how you are going to fish the swimbait, there is no standard.

Let 's take for example this one:

Daiwa 's Dead or Alive, there are days that I just cast it and reel it in stadily as slow pace and it works fine that way, there are days that they don 't want it that way, they want it first retrieved, then stopped and then jerked or wiggled, there are other days when I only use the reel to retrieve the slack line, they want it jerked, how I find out, by trying several retrieves until I find the one they respond better to.

For another example let 's use this one:

Matt 's bluegill, the bait sinks, well there are days when they want it reeled in steadily slow, other days they want it reeled in steadily "fast" and there are days they like it bouncing the bottom.

So like with other baits you have to try different speeds, different depths, different retrieves until you find the one that they like best, and there are days that you can 't find which way they want it.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

There are so many ways to fish different swimbaits, it would blow your mind.  There are also now so many different types of "swimbaits" that make it that much more difficult to choose.

Chuck and wind will produce, but limiting yourself to that technique alone will limit the amount of fish you catch.

Ask yourself, "How would a feeder fish act where I am fishing my swimbait?"  

Realism is the big thing with most swimbaits.  You are attempting to fool some of the oldest, smartest bass in your body of water.  

I have not fished Brent's Jaw Jacks, but have fished similar paddle tail types.  When fishing them, think "spinnerbait" and you will be on the right track.

[D4u2s0t]

any time i tie one something new, I go to the edge of the dock and throw the bait out a few feet and experiment to see what it does.  I find it easier to control the bait on a full cast when you know how it reacts to what you do with the pole.  it lets you visualize what's happening when you can't see the bait.  plus every bait will be different.

[Raul]

I have not fished Brent's Jaw Jacks, but have fished similar paddle tail types. When fishing them, think "spinnerbait" and you will be on the right track.

Or flipping jig, my most productive method so far with hollow body swimbaits ( haven 't tried Brent 's but I 've fished with Basstrix ) has been flipping them into cover, go figure.

[BadKarma42]

There are so many ways to fish different swimbaits, it would blow your mind. There are also now so many different types of "swimbaits" that make it that much more difficult to choose.

Chuck and wind will produce, but limiting yourself to that technique alone will limit the amount of fish you catch.

Ask yourself, "How would a feeder fish act where I am fishing my swimbait?"

Realism is the big thing with most swimbaits. You are attempting to fool some of the oldest, smartest bass in your body of water.

I have not fished Brent's Jaw Jacks, but have fished similar paddle tail types. When fishing them, think "spinnerbait" and you will be on the right track.

So, to put it simply, you are saying "let the fish tell you"?